Partners

Today we are delighted to announce that 19 U.S. research universities are joining our supporting foundations as Founding Partners of The Conversation US.

These universities are a combination of public and private universities, large and small. They believe in our mission to bring the important research taking place on university campuses out into the public square for everyone’s benefit.

They are, in alphabetical order:

University at Albany, State University of New York

Binghamton University, State University of New York

Boston University

University of California

Case Western Reserve University

College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), State University of New York

University of Florida

Georgia State University

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

University of Michigan

Michigan State University

The Ohio State University

Pennsylvania State University

Rutgers University, Newark

University of South Florida

Texas A&M University

University of Texas, Austin

Tufts University

Vanderbilt University

The pilot version of The Conversation was launched in the U.S. in September 2014 thanks to the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Boston University donated office space on their campus for our start-up team of nine.

In 2015, additional funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation and the Simons Foundation allowed us to grow our team and our coverage.

Since launch, we have worked with over 1,800 contributors from over 350 universities. The Conversation US now averages 400,000 unique visitors to our website monthly. Thanks to our Creative Commons license, our content is read by millions of readers on other media sites such as the Washington Post, Time, Quartz and Scientific American. Together with our four sister sites in Australia, the U.K., France and Africa, we reach over 23 million readers monthly worldwide.

The funding from our new university partners will allow us to further deepen and widen both our coverage and our impact.

We look forward to working with our partners and growing our university membership as we continue to bring you original thought-provoking journalism from academic scholars across the United States.